Hans-Peter Ullmann

Hans-Peter Ullmann (born October 12, 1949 in Berlin ) is a German historian .

Hans-Peter Ullmann studied Medieval and Modern History, Anglo-American History, Romance Studies, Economics and Sociology in Cologne and Freiburg . In 1975 he received his doctorate in Cologne with Theodor Schieder with a thesis on the organization, influence and politics of small and medium-sized industrialists in the German Empire from 1895 to 1914. Ullmann was a research assistant from 1975 to 1980 and since 1980 a university assistant at the University of Giessen . In 1984 he completed his habilitation in Gießen with a thesis on the origin of modern public debt in Bavaria and Baden from 1780 to 1820.

Ullmann taught as a professor in Gießen from 1986 to 1988, from 1988 to 1990 at the Free University of Berlin and from 1990 to 1999 at the University of Tübingen . In 1999 he moved to the University of Cologne and took over the chair for modern history, which he held until his retirement in 2015.

Ullmann's main research areas are the reform period at the beginning of the 19th century and the period of the German Empire . Special interests lie in the area of ​​interest groups and the history of public finances in the 19th and 20th centuries. He was awarded the University Prize of the Justus Liebig University Giessen in 1986 and the University Prize of Cologne University in 2013.

Fonts (selection)

• Slipping into the debt state. Public finances in the Federal Republic from the 1960s to the 1980s. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 3-525-30111-1 .
• State and Debt. Public finances in Germany since the 18th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-36385-0 .
• The German tax state. History of public finances from the 18th century to the present day (= Beck'sche Reihe. Vol. 1616). Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-51135-X .
• Politics in the German Empire 1871-1918 (= Encyclopedia of German History . Vol. 52). Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-55058-6 (2nd, revised edition, ibid 2005, ISBN 3-486-57707-7 ).
• The German Empire. 1871–1918 (= Edition Suhrkamp. 1546 = NF 546, New Historical Library. ). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-11546-4 (7th edition, ibid 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-11546-6 ).
• Interest groups in Germany (= Edition Suhrkamp. 1283 = NF 283, New Historical Library. ). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt 1988, ISBN 3-518-11283-X .
• National Debt and Reform Policy. The emergence of modern public debt in Bavaria and Baden 1780–1820 (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 82). 2 volumes. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1986, ISBN 3-525-35398-7 (also: Gießen, Universität, habilitation thesis, 1984).
• The Federation of Industrialists. Organization, influence and politics of small and medium-sized industrialists in the German Empire 1895–1914 (= critical studies on historical science . Vol. 21). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1976, ISBN 3-525-35972-1 (also: Cologne, University, dissertation, 1975).

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Peter Ullmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Ullmann at the University of Cologne